Meanings
nounkailyard (plural kailyards)
plural kailyards · alternative kailyaird · alternative kaleyard
- ScotlandA kitchen garden.
There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.
1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II - A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister
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